Jesus was the Christ from the moment of his conception, but it took the events of salvation and
his bodily resurrection from the dead for him to be recognized as such by men.
Not exact matches
1 Peter 3:18 — during the crucifixion when Christ died — Jesus died in the flesh, but his deity was alive «alive in the spirit» (a Spirit can not die, therefore when a verse says «raise
from the
dead» it can only refer to a
bodily resurrection)
The picture suggests a
bodily resurrection of the
dead and a transference of the living directly
from this world to another.
At the core of the Christian belief in eternal life is the
bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the
dead.
Irenaeus (c. 130 - c. 200) concluded
from the widely accepted tradition that Jesus himself had descended into the underworld of the
dead before rising
bodily on the third day, that «the souls of his disciples, for whom the Lord performed this, will depart into an unseen region, set apart for them by God, and they will dwell there until the
resurrection which they await.